5 recherche sur le mot-clé 'Evolutionary theory'   

Evolutionary pathways in nature: a phylogenetic approach / Avise, John C. (2006)  

Public ISBD Titre : Evolutionary pathways in nature: a phylogenetic approach Type de document : livre Auteurs : Avise, John C., Auteur Mention d'édition : 01 éd. Editeur : New York : Cambridge University Press Année de publication : 2006 Importance : 286 p. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-521-67417-1 Note générale : Inventaire 2008: Pointé et ré-emprunté le 21/01/2008 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Evolutionary theory  Phylogenetics  Phylogeny Résumé : Reconstructing phylogenetic trees from DNA sequences has become a popular exercise in many branches of biology, and here the well-known geneticist John Avise explains why. Molecular phylogenies provide a genealogical backdrop for interpreting the evolutionary histories of many other types of biological traits (anatomical, behavioral, ecological, physiological, biochemical and even geographical). Guiding readers on a natural history tour along dozens of evolutionary pathways, the author describes how creatures ranging from microbes to elephants came to possess their current phenotypes. Essential reading for college students, professional biologists and anyone interested in natural history and biodiversity, this book is packed with fascinating examples of evolutionary puzzles from across the animal kingdom; how the toucan got its enormous bill, how reptiles grow back lost limbs and why Arctic fish don't freeze. [résumé éditeur] Note de contenu : Pbk; En ligne : http://books.google.fr/books?id=9if9GRL6i4UC&dq=evolutionary+pathways+in+nature& [...] Evolutionary pathways in nature: a phylogenetic approach [livre] / Avise, John C., Auteur  . -  01 éd. . - New York : Cambridge University Press, 2006 . - 286 p. ISBN : 978-0-521-67417-1 Inventaire 2008: Pointé et ré-emprunté le 21/01/2008 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Evolutionary theory  Phylogenetics  Phylogeny Résumé : Reconstructing phylogenetic trees from DNA sequences has become a popular exercise in many branches of biology, and here the well-known geneticist John Avise explains why. Molecular phylogenies provide a genealogical backdrop for interpreting the evolutionary histories of many other types of biological traits (anatomical, behavioral, ecological, physiological, biochemical and even geographical). Guiding readers on a natural history tour along dozens of evolutionary pathways, the author describes how creatures ranging from microbes to elephants came to possess their current phenotypes. Essential reading for college students, professional biologists and anyone interested in natural history and biodiversity, this book is packed with fascinating examples of evolutionary puzzles from across the animal kingdom; how the toucan got its enormous bill, how reptiles grow back lost limbs and why Arctic fish don't freeze. [résumé éditeur] Note de contenu : Pbk; En ligne : http://books.google.fr/books?id=9if9GRL6i4UC&dq=evolutionary+pathways+in+nature& [...]

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Punctuated equilibrium / Gould, S.J. (2007)

Public ISBD Titre : Punctuated equilibrium Type de document : livre Auteurs : Gould, S.J. Editeur : Cambridge : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press Année de publication : 2007 Importance : 396 p. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-674-02444-1 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Evolutionary theory  Speciation Résumé : In 1972 Stephen Jay Gould took the scientific world by storm with his paper on punctuated equilibrium, written with Niles Eldredge. Challenging a core assumption of Darwin's theory of evolution, it launched the career of one of the most influential evolutionary biologists of our time--perhaps the best known since Darwin. Now, thirty-five years later, and five years after his untimely death, Punctuated Equilibrium (originally published as the central chapter of Gould's masterwork, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory) offers his only book-length testament on an idea he fiercely promoted, repeatedly refined, and tirelessly defended. Punctuated equilibrium holds that the great majority of species originate in geological moments (punctuations) and persist in stasis. The idea was hotly debated because it forced biologists to rethink entrenched ideas about evolutionary patterns and processes. But as Gould shows here in his typically exhaustive coverage, the idea has become the foundation of a new view of hierarchical selection and macroevolution. What emerges strikingly from this book is that punctuated equilibrium represents a much broader paradigm about the nature of change--a worldview that may be judged as a distinctive and important movement within recent intellectual history. Indeed we may now be living within a punctuation, and our awareness of what this means may be the enduring legacy of one of America's best-loved scientists. Punctuated equilibrium [livre] / Gould, S.J. . - Cambridge : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2007 . - 396 p. ISBN : 978-0-674-02444-1 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Evolutionary theory  Speciation Résumé : In 1972 Stephen Jay Gould took the scientific world by storm with his paper on punctuated equilibrium, written with Niles Eldredge. Challenging a core assumption of Darwin's theory of evolution, it launched the career of one of the most influential evolutionary biologists of our time--perhaps the best known since Darwin. Now, thirty-five years later, and five years after his untimely death, Punctuated Equilibrium (originally published as the central chapter of Gould's masterwork, The Structure of Evolutionary Theory) offers his only book-length testament on an idea he fiercely promoted, repeatedly refined, and tirelessly defended. Punctuated equilibrium holds that the great majority of species originate in geological moments (punctuations) and persist in stasis. The idea was hotly debated because it forced biologists to rethink entrenched ideas about evolutionary patterns and processes. But as Gould shows here in his typically exhaustive coverage, the idea has become the foundation of a new view of hierarchical selection and macroevolution. What emerges strikingly from this book is that punctuated equilibrium represents a much broader paradigm about the nature of change--a worldview that may be judged as a distinctive and important movement within recent intellectual history. Indeed we may now be living within a punctuation, and our awareness of what this means may be the enduring legacy of one of America's best-loved scientists.

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Evolution and the big questions: sex, race, religion, and other matters / Stamos, D.N. (2008)

Public ISBD Titre : Evolution and the big questions: sex, race, religion, and other matters Type de document : livre Auteurs : Stamos, D.N. Mention d'édition : 01 éd. Editeur : Malden : Blackwell Année de publication : 2008 Importance : 275 p. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-4051-4903-7 Note générale : Inventaire 2008: Pointé en rayon le 20/05/2008 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Evolution  Evolutionary theory Résumé : This provocative text considers whether evolutionary explanations can be used to clarify some of life's biggest questions. * Examines topics of race, sex, gender, the nature of language, religion, ethics, knowledge, consciousness and ultimately, the meaning of life * Each chapter presents a main topic, together with discussion of related ideas and arguments from various perspectives * Addresses questions such as: Did evolution make men and women fundamentally different? Is the concept of race merely a social construction? Is morality, including universal human rights, a mass delusion? Can religion and evolution really be harmonized? Does evolution render life meaningless? * Written in a clear and informative style, with helpful references for further reading and research [Résumé éditeur] Note de contenu : Pbk; Evolution and the big questions: sex, race, religion, and other matters [livre] / Stamos, D.N.  . -  01 éd. . - Malden : Blackwell, 2008 . - 275 p. ISBN : 978-1-4051-4903-7 Inventaire 2008: Pointé en rayon le 20/05/2008 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Evolution  Evolutionary theory Résumé : This provocative text considers whether evolutionary explanations can be used to clarify some of life's biggest questions. * Examines topics of race, sex, gender, the nature of language, religion, ethics, knowledge, consciousness and ultimately, the meaning of life * Each chapter presents a main topic, together with discussion of related ideas and arguments from various perspectives * Addresses questions such as: Did evolution make men and women fundamentally different? Is the concept of race merely a social construction? Is morality, including universal human rights, a mass delusion? Can religion and evolution really be harmonized? Does evolution render life meaningless? * Written in a clear and informative style, with helpful references for further reading and research [Résumé éditeur] Note de contenu : Pbk;

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Dawkins vs. Gould: survival of the fittest / Sterelny, K. (2007)

Public ISBD Titre : Dawkins vs. Gould: survival of the fittest Type de document : livre Auteurs : Sterelny, K. Editeur : Cambridge : Icon Books Année de publication : 2007 Importance : 205 p. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-1-84046-780-2 Note générale : Inventaire 2008: Pointé en rayon le 21/05/2008 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Evolutionary theory  Science Résumé : Science has seen its fair share of punch-ups over the years, but one debate, in the field of biology, has become notorious for its intensity. Over the last twenty years, Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould have engaged in a savage battle over evolution that shows no sign of waning. Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker, conceives of evolution as a struggle between gene lineages; Gould, who wrote Wonderful Life and Rocks of Ages, sees it as a struggle between organisms. For Dawkins, the principles of evolutionary biology apply just as well to humans as they do to all living creatures; for Gould, however, this sociobiology is not just ill-motivated but wrong, and dangerous. Dawkins' views have been caricatured, and the man painted as a crazed reductionist, shrinking all the variety and complexity of life down to a struggle for existence between blind and selfish genes. Gould, too, has been falsely represented by creationists as rejecting the fundamental principles of Darwinism itself. Kim Sterelny moves beyond caricature to expose the real differences between the conceptions of evolution of these two leading scientists. He shows that the conflict extends beyond evolution to their very beliefs in science itself; and, in Gould's case, to domains in which science plays no role at all. [Résumé éditeur] Note de contenu : Pbk; Dawkins vs. Gould: survival of the fittest [livre] / Sterelny, K. . - Cambridge : Icon Books, 2007 . - 205 p. ISBN : 978-1-84046-780-2 Inventaire 2008: Pointé en rayon le 21/05/2008 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Evolutionary theory  Science Résumé : Science has seen its fair share of punch-ups over the years, but one debate, in the field of biology, has become notorious for its intensity. Over the last twenty years, Richard Dawkins and Stephen Jay Gould have engaged in a savage battle over evolution that shows no sign of waning. Dawkins, author of The Selfish Gene and The Blind Watchmaker, conceives of evolution as a struggle between gene lineages; Gould, who wrote Wonderful Life and Rocks of Ages, sees it as a struggle between organisms. For Dawkins, the principles of evolutionary biology apply just as well to humans as they do to all living creatures; for Gould, however, this sociobiology is not just ill-motivated but wrong, and dangerous. Dawkins' views have been caricatured, and the man painted as a crazed reductionist, shrinking all the variety and complexity of life down to a struggle for existence between blind and selfish genes. Gould, too, has been falsely represented by creationists as rejecting the fundamental principles of Darwinism itself. Kim Sterelny moves beyond caricature to expose the real differences between the conceptions of evolution of these two leading scientists. He shows that the conflict extends beyond evolution to their very beliefs in science itself; and, in Gould's case, to domains in which science plays no role at all. [Résumé éditeur] Note de contenu : Pbk;

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Science vs religion: intelligent design and the problem of evolution / Fuller, S. (2007)  

Public ISBD Titre : Science vs religion: intelligent design and the problem of evolution Type de document : livre Auteurs : Fuller, S. Mention d'édition : 01 éd. Editeur : Cambridge : Polity Année de publication : 2007 Importance : 179 p. ISBN/ISSN/EAN : 978-0-7456-4122-5 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Evolution  Evolutionary theory  Intelligent design  Science Résumé : For centuries, science and religion have been portrayed as diametrically opposed. In this provocative new book, Steve Fuller examines the apparent clash between science and religion by focusing on the heated debates about evolution and intelligent design theory. In so doing, he claims that science vs. religion is in fact a false dichotomy. For Fuller, supposedly intellectual disputes, such as those between creationist and evolutionist accounts of life, often disguise other institutionally driven conflicts, such as the struggle between State and Church to be the source of legitimate authority in society. Nowadays many conservative anti-science groups support intelligent design theory, but Fuller argues that the theory's theological roots are much more radical, based on the idea that humans were created to fathom the divine plan, perhaps even complete it. He goes on to examine the unique political circumstances in the United States that make the emergence of intelligent design theory so controversial, yet so persistent. Finally, he considers the long-term prognosis, arguing that the future remains very much undecided as society reopens the question of what it means to be human. [Résumé éditeur] En ligne : http://books.google.com/books?id=5QwRIZOiHRQC&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr Science vs religion: intelligent design and the problem of evolution [livre] / Fuller, S.  . -  01 éd. . - Cambridge : Polity, 2007 . - 179 p. ISBN : 978-0-7456-4122-5 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Evolution  Evolutionary theory  Intelligent design  Science Résumé : For centuries, science and religion have been portrayed as diametrically opposed. In this provocative new book, Steve Fuller examines the apparent clash between science and religion by focusing on the heated debates about evolution and intelligent design theory. In so doing, he claims that science vs. religion is in fact a false dichotomy. For Fuller, supposedly intellectual disputes, such as those between creationist and evolutionist accounts of life, often disguise other institutionally driven conflicts, such as the struggle between State and Church to be the source of legitimate authority in society. Nowadays many conservative anti-science groups support intelligent design theory, but Fuller argues that the theory's theological roots are much more radical, based on the idea that humans were created to fathom the divine plan, perhaps even complete it. He goes on to examine the unique political circumstances in the United States that make the emergence of intelligent design theory so controversial, yet so persistent. Finally, he considers the long-term prognosis, arguing that the future remains very much undecided as society reopens the question of what it means to be human. [Résumé éditeur] En ligne : http://books.google.com/books?id=5QwRIZOiHRQC&printsec=frontcover&hl=fr

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